The Idiot Condition:Like New “McClanahan's prose is miasmic

“McClanahan's prose is miasmic

you will read stories from ordinary people who witnessed miracles large and small unfold in their lives after they performed the basic act of putting their goals on paper

and every day I see how fairness is not guaranteed

there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects

The Idiot Condition:Like New “McClanahan's prose is miasmicIt is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer. In between studying psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana (a Serbian refugee from Connecticut), Selin falls in love with a Hungarian